How Alabama trolled UCF by scheduling home-and-home series with Texas

Following the big news of the day, Alabama and Texas have agreed to a home-and-home series for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, UCF has once again found itself in the center of the story.

The self-proclaimed national champions, despite what their former coach Scott Frost or Nick Saban has to say about that, find themselves the victims of the Crimson Tide’s scheduling news. But before getting to that, here’s what Alabama’s coach had to say about UCF’s claims to the national championship.

“If you honor and respect the system that we have, (despite) some of the imperfections that you understand that the system has, then you wouldn’t do something out of respect for the system that we have,” Saban said according to George Schroeder of USA TODAY Sports. “I guess anybody has the prerogative to claim anything. But self-proclaimed is not the same as actually earning it. And there’s probably a significant number of people who don’t respect people who make self-proclaimed sort of accolades for themselves.”

Which brings us back to the Knights. Due to the fact Texas wanted a chance to play the defending national champs, UCF has been dropped from the Longhorns’ future schedule in favor of Alabama. The Crimson Tide have now taken UCF’s spot on Texas’ 2023 schedule.

UCF at Texas, which was scheduled for Sept. 9, 2023, has been canceled.

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So basically what Saban is saying is that we shouldn’t have any respect for Alabama’s umpteen made up national championships. Got it.
Also UCF getting dropped just proves the dilemma they face in scheduling where alabama chooses to play Mercer. While they have played in the kickoff classic those games are neutral site and often are more hype than substance.

Who are you? Umpteen? I don’t care if the THREE disputed ones are not counted. That puts Bama at 14. More than any other major school. I’m in agreement about never scheduling the Mercers of the world again. Based on your posts dating back almost a year, it is clear you are a full blown SEC hater. That in itself disqualifies you from rational statements about the SEC.